Yes, the left-brain/right-brain is a bit of a shorthand and not fully accurate. Let’s just say there are people who thrive on literary fiction and those who thrive on RPG systems, and the overlap between them is not large. Some people care about systems, worlds, mechanics and lore far more than they do about the…

You mean they’re both reacting to sloppy writing that feels ill-suited to the IP?

I have a loose thesis that there are right-brained, left-brained and balanced reactions to (say) the Star Wars prequels and the Star Wars sequels. Left-brained people think the prequels are okay, right-brained people think they’re awful.…

What does this mean? 

Hmm, but the nukes were dropped because Japan refused to surrender. Dany drops her nukes immediately *after* the surrender. 

No body, and a small pool of blood being covered up gradually by a fall of ash. What a doofus.

Break the wheel, get the wheelchair. 

I want to see the spin-off with Drogon and Ghost. 

But also inventing the King of the Zombies? 

A lot to agree with here.

Leaving aside the scene where the other characters are in shock and disbelief over her death (cf. Stark, whose death is accepted, even if sadly) I have a feeling that Stark got a funeral to mark his genuine end in the MCU, whereas Natasha didn’t because her story is not over.

I have a feeling RDJ wears stacked heels as well. 

That’s just rhetoric that doesn’t address the question properly. We don’t normalize women in action/thriller movies by putting a big neon sign over them and giving them special head-patting moments. We normalize them by making them normal. Ripley in the Alien movies is one obvious example: she’s typically the most…

Farrell isn’t a bad actor. He just has an unerring instinct for bad projects.

I realized halfway through the round-table meeting with Gorbachev in ep 2 that I was hiding my face behind my hands. 

I believe it’s “flying food minion”. 

Worst case scenario is having one of these conversations with somebody who’s going to be your university room-mate for the next year. 

#4 (dry steering) is going to cause excess tire wear if you do it frequently. It’s better to learn how to parallel park without doing this. 

In Europe it’s something you’ll do almost every day. That’s why it’s a key part of most driving tests there. 

“I would buy that Dany’s about face was not lazy if it were not the 5th sign of laziness in a row.”

I think this is a major factor that many people are overlooking. A left-move from a storyteller whom we trust implicitly is one thing. But Benioff and Weiss have eroded that trust over a period of several years with a…